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Early Career Research in Primary Care Medicine in Switzerland
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Strengthening ties between academic primary care institutions
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Vlad Evdaev is a third year medical student at the University of British Columbia. “It won’t be long before they find out that I am a fraud, or that I do not belong; they must have made a mistake...
View ArticleGiving place a chance: celebrating rural family medicine in Marathon
Barbara Zelek is Associate Professor and Co-Chair for the Section of Family Medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Marathon, a rural community on the North shore of Lake Superior, made...
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